http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=69&catid=264News Feed for - GMOhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96591670&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-27T01:21:00Trust the Food Standards Agency. Charged with conducting a national debate on GM food and crops, it starts out by denigrating opponents to them as governed by emotion and ideology rather than reason. Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96618253&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-27T02:22:00Science of the Organism & Sustainable Systems Invited lecture, The Alternative View, 13-15 November, Grand Thistle Hotel, Bristol, UK Monsanto has surreptitiously withdrawn its high lysine GM maize Institute of Sciences in Societyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96585328&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-27T01:25:00The future of Indian agriculture rests on the shoulders of the unglamorous eggplant. Farmers have the ability to take a big step forward with biotechnology--but only if the government in New Delhi will Fresh Plazahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96549182&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T07:37:00Public opposition to genetically modified food is based on emotion rather than reason, a Food Standards Agency report which will help shape future Government policy claims. A protest against GM crops Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96548906&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T07:34:00Opponents of GM food are motivated by emotion and ideology rather than a reasoned scientific approach, according to a major report by a government funded quango. The study, which states one of its aims Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96547271&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T07:00:00Public opposition to genetically modified food is based on �??emotion�?� rather than �??reason�?�, a Food Standards Agency report which will help shape future Government policy claims. The study published Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96605305&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T23:34:00supermarkets. It added: �??There was a lack of knowledge about how labelling and regulation currently works and a view that the current system is confusing. �??There was widespread support for labelling FoodBizDailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96562833&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T14:06:00Diabetes mellitus (DM) is characterized by hyperglycemia caused by a lack of insulin, insulin resistance, or both. There is increasing evidence that insulin also plays a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) Bioscience Technology Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96558039&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T10:47:00Consumers think that current labelling regulation for genetically modified (GM) foods is inadequate, according to a new report from the UK�??s Food Standards Agency (FSA). The FSA-commissioned report, Food Navigatorhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96592306&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T20:22:00Responding to new research published by the Food Standards Agency on public attitiudes to GM food, Friends of the Earth's senior food campaigner, Clare Oxborrow, said: 'Many people will be shocked to Friends of the Earth UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96545706&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T14:22:00SADC must support and strengthen genetically modified organism detection laboratories to curb the influx of undesirable GMO products and enhance the capacity of the region to verify the GM content of RBC Dain Rauscherhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96563316&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T13:55:00Consumers want more information about genetically modified crops, reveals a study. Research conducted on behalf of the Food Standards Agency found different levels of understanding about GM food. Attitudes Farmers Weekly Interactivehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96558309&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T10:48:00Source:Food Ingredients First Sector:General Company & Ingredient Information Summary:The FSA commissioned this work to complement a series of questions on food technologies, including GM foods, in the Food Ingredients Firsthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96338966&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T07:40:00The entry of genetically-modified organism (GMO) which produce "superior crops" that could survive the worst impacts of climate change for the farmers? benefit in Negros Occidental is getting clear, thus Individual.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96521083&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T01:40:00The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) published findings of a qualitative research project last night, which ascertained current public attitudes to genetically modified (GM) food. The research found different Australian Food Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96392540&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-26T01:52:00BeaconEquity.com announces an investment report featuring specialty retailer Kirkland's Inc. (Nasdaq:KIRK). The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information Individual.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96510039&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-25T23:42:00by Rosemary Roberts 24th November 2009 DETERMINED: Zelka Grammer, whose complaint to the New Zealand Commerce Commission helped force Inghams Enterprises (NZ) Ltd to stop claiming its chickens contain Northern Advocatehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96506963&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-25T23:16:00For the first time, a GM multinational has pulled two GM corn varieties from the regulatory and assessment process at the last minute. Monsanto has abandoned its ambitious plans for a so-called 'second Food Consumerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96506869&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-25T23:15:00France's highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto Food Consumerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96480467&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-25T15:58:00Mexico doesn't have an adequate system to monitor or protect natural maize (corn) varieties from transgenes, say prominent scientists concerned about the experimental planting of genetically modified Naturehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96466444&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-25T12:26:00Nature Methods 6, 897 (2009). doi:10.1038/nmeth.1402 Authors: Carlos M Loya, Cecilia S Lu, David Van Vactor & Tudor A FulgaNature Nanotechnologyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96334074&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-23T19:40:00Origin Agritech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SEED) announced over the weekend that the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture approved its genetically modified phytase corn, the first in the world, sending the stock price San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96319861&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-23T16:10:00Nov 23 (Reuters) - Shares of Origin Agritech Ltd soared 67 percent to a year-high on Monday, after the Chinese supplier of crop seeds said on Saturday that its genetically modified phytase corn received Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96408655&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-24T15:56:00The American Soybean Association has urged the European Commission to get on an approve Syngenta�??s GM maize variety MIR 604, following Friday�??s failure by farm ministers to reach a decision on the Farm Businesshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96395449&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2642009-11-24T12:47:00ChickenNEW ZEALAND - Following a warning to a poultry company last week, a scientist says that chickens fed genetically modified (GM) feed does not produce GM meat. A very public attack on poultry producer PoultrySite